The four winners (center) pose with the judges, members of the College of
Architecture faculty and members of the Fernandez family.
The essay competition honors the late Arki dean.
Four UPD students, namely: David Samuel Ty, Francis Lanuza, Ma. Emmanuelle Nicola Berbano and Guillermo Lorenzo Fuertes received the top three prizes in the first Honrado R. Fernandez Competition for Architectural Criticism, an essay tilt analyzing any aspect of the designed environment.
The four winners (center) pose with the judges, members of the College of
Architecture faculty and members of the Fernandez family.
Ty, a student from the College of Architecture (CA), won the top prize for his critique on Filipino housing entitled “Hardin ng Rosas: From Filipino House to Filipino Housing.” The second place went to Lanuza, also a CA student, for his piece “Pearls from Ashes,” an evaluation of the Gawad Kalinga housing project. Tied in third place were Berbano, for his article “Where the Sidewalk Ends: An Essay on Why it Shouldn’t,” a critique of Manila’s sidewalk system,” and Fuertes, for “Crass and Class,” a piece on the Highway 54 commercial complex on Shaw Boulevard. Berbano is also from CA while Fuertes is from the College of Arts and Letters.
The competition ran from December 2006 to January 2007 and culminated in an awarding ceremony on March 12 as an offering of the National Symposium on Filipino Architecture and Design (NSFAD) and “Haraya 2007,” CA’s week-long celebration of student works.
The winners received a cash prize, a gift pack from BluPrint magazine and collector’s edition trophies donated by the Fernandez Family (replicas of the late Fernandez’ sculptures). The four were also offered summer internships courtesy of BluPrint, which will publish their works in a special feature section.
Entries were judged by a select body composed of Gemma Cruz-Araneta of the Heritage Conservation Society, Dr. Patrick Flores of the National Museum, Paulo Alcazaren of BluPrint magazine, and Arch. Froilan Hong of the United Architects of the Philippines (UAP).